Sunset Stripe
1962
Gouache
60 x 46 cm
signed and
dated
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Whitford
Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of works on paper by a leading
British Pop
artist
Derek Boshier.
The
only years when Boshier was working in the true Pop idiom were 1962 and
1963. Most of the works from 1963
were painted in
In
the early 1960's, while still a student at London's Royal College of Art, Derek
Boshier played a key role in the British Pop Art Movement. Boshier helped shape
this historically critical period along with David Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B.
Kitaj and Peter Phillips. In his works Boshier juxtaposes contrasting styles,
but favours topical subject- matter such as the space race, political events and
the Americanization of Europe. His pictures confront the world of consumer
goods, symbols used in mass communications and human gesturer behaviour. The
Pepsi logo is an iconic image he uses frequently, often replacing the sun or
moon with this image. The campaign for striped toothpaste in 1962 shows the
manipulative forces of advertising and the loss of individual identity that this
brought in its wake. Boshier's characteristic 'custom-built men', cut out figures, pieced together as in
jig-saw puzzle or in a process of disintegration arose directly from his
reading of commentators such as
Marshall McLuhan, Vance Packard and John Kenneth Galbraith and depicts caustic views about the mass
media.
In
addition to painting, he has produced works in a variety of mediums including
graphics, sculpture, installation, photography and film. As an accomplished
printmaker Boshier has created album designs for David Bowie and the
Clash.
All
works are for sale.
EXHIBITION
DATES: Friday 10 - 31 March
2006
Preview:
Please
contact Yvonna Elphick at the gallery should you require any images or further
information.
Galley
opening hours: